The Edinburgh Companion To Nineteenth Century American Letters And Letter Writing

Author : Byron Johnson Rees
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330149072
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Letters written by Byron Johnson Rees and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nineteenth Century Letters: Selected and Edited, With an Introduction The present volume is the result of an attempt to bring together within small compass, from the correspondence of well-known English and American authors of the Nineteenth Century, letters that possess two, and in most instances, three characteristics.. Though there are exceptions, the .letters here submitted are usually typical of the writers; they furnish information as to literary conditions and relationships; and they possess interest in themselves as examples of epistolary correspondence. Obviously allowance must be made for vagaries of judgment and taste. A letter that interests the editor because of some personal predilection may seem dull to many readers; and doubtless he has often failed through individual limitations, either of responsiveness or of knowledge, to include letters that should have been printed. Often he has somewhat wistfully rejected a good letter because it was already thoroughly familiar to readers. Now and then the law of copyright has hampered his freedom of choice. Of the various kinds of writing, the letter most of all incites to annotation. The temptation to write foot-notes, those "voices that bark from the basement,,, is particularly strong when a reference to a somewhat obscure event, or an allusion to a matter familiar to but a small group of persons, makes its appearance. When tempted the editor has usually remembered that readers and students of literary letters are in most cases quite capable of making their own comments on the text, or that, if they are not, there is on this occasion no good excuse for annoying them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.